Shin may refer to:
Biology
* The front part of the
human leg
The human leg, in the general word sense, is the entire lower limb (anatomy), limb of the human body, including the foot, thigh or sometimes even the hip or Gluteal muscles, gluteal region. However, the definition in human anatomy refers only to ...
below the knee
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Shinbone, the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates
Names
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Shin (given name)
is a common Japanese given name which is mostly used for males.
Possible writings
Shin can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*真, "true"
*伸, "extend"
*新, "new"
*心, "heart"
*信, "belief"
*進, "progress"
*慎, "h ...
(Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん), a Japanese given name
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Shin (Korean surname)
Sin or Shin is a Korean family name. It is cognate to the Chinese family names Shēn (申) and Xin (辛). According to the 2000 census in South Korea, there were 911,556 people with the surname ''Sin''.
Clans
There are three Chinese character ...
(Hangul: 신, Hanja: 申, 辛, 愼), a Korean family name
* Shin (Chinese: 新, which means "new"), spelled in Pinyin as
Xin
Fictional characters
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Shin Akuma, a character in the Street Fighter series
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Shin Asuka (disambiguation), multiple
* Shin Malphur, a character in the video game ''
Destiny 2: Forsaken''
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Kamen Rider Shin
is a 1992 Japanese tokusatsu biopunk- horror V-Cinema film directed by Makoto Tsuji. It is a reimagining of the Kamen Rider Series and is also the first standalone film in the franchise. Toei has marketed the film to English speaking markets as ...
, a character in the Kamen Rider series
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Seijuro Shin (進), a character in the manga and anime series ''Eyeshield 21''
* A character in the manga
Dorohedoro
* A character in the manga and anime ''
Fist of the North Star''
Music
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Shin (band) ( zh, 信樂團, links=no)
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Shin (singer) (蘇見信), a Taiwanese singer and former lead singer of the band Shin
* Shin, the drummer of the German visual kei group
Cinema Bizarre
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The Shin
The Shin ( ka, შინ) is a Georgian fusion jazz band formed in Germany in 1998. The music of The Shin smoothly combines Georgian folk melodies with jazz, famous native polyphonic singing with scat, and tunes of the near Orient and flamenco with ...
, a Georgian fusion jazz band
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The Shins, an American indie band
* Shin (シン), a Japanese rock singer and former vocalist of
Vivid
Places
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Shin, Iran
Shin ( fa, شين, also Romanized as Shīn; also known as Sen) is a village in Aq Bolagh Rural District, Sojas Rud District, Khodabandeh County, Zanjan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called ...
, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran
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Shin, Swat, an administrative unit in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
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Shin, Syria, a village in Syria
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Loch Shin, a loch in the Scottish Highlands
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River Shin, a river in the Scottish Highlands
Other uses
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Shin (letter)
Shin (also spelled Šin (') or Sheen) is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Shin , Hebrew Shin , Aramaic Shin , Syriac Shin ܫ, and Arabic Shin (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order).
Its sound value is a voice ...
, the twenty-first letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Hebrew and Arabic
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Shin Buddhism, a widely practiced branch of Buddhism in Japan, named after its founder, Shinran
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Shin Corporation, one of the largest conglomerates in Thailand
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Shina language
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Shina people, an ethnic group who live in parts of Pakistan and northern India
* Shin (信), a principle of
Nichiren Buddhism
See also
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Şin, Azerbaijan
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Shina (disambiguation)
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Shine (disambiguation)
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Shien (disambiguation) Shien is a given/family name and may refer to:
* Chen Shien (born 1985), professional ''Go'' player
* Shien Biau Woo (born 1937), American professor and politician
* Shu Shien-Siu (1912–2001), Chinese/Taiwanese mathematician, engineer, and educ ...
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Shein (disambiguation) Shein is a Chinese online fast fashion retailer.
Shein may also refer to:
People with the surname
* Aleksei Shein (1662–1700), Russian commander
* Ali Mohamed Shein (born 1948), Tanzanian politician
* Arn Shein (1928–2007), American sports ...
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Sheen (disambiguation)
Sheen may refer to:
Places
* Sheen or West Sheen, an alternative name for Richmond, London, England
** East Sheen
** North Sheen
** Sheen Priory
* Sheen, Staffordshire, a village and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands, England
* Sheenb ...
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Chin (disambiguation)
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